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A midwife is a person, who, having been regularly admitted to a midwifery education program, duly recognized in the country in which she is located, has successfully completed the prescribed course of studies in midwifery and has acquired the requisite qualifications to be registered and/or legally licensed to practice midwifery. She must be able to give the necessary supervision, care and advice to women during pregnancy, labor and the postpartum period, to conduct deliveries on her own responsibility and to care for the newborn and the infant.

Postpartum care has been a relatively neglected aspect of maternity care.

This low level of care is disturbing, since timely interventions during the postpartum period can prevent deaths of both mothers and newborn infants, and can reduce the incidence of long-term pregnancy-related morbidities

Field trials completed in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam suggest that it increases access to basic life saving care in the home and community, decreases delays in women reaching referral facilities and supports the communities efforts to decrease maternal and infant death.

Competency based training program that equips midwives with the skills to intervene in the top five life threatening maternal conditions including obstetrical hemorrhage, obstructed labor, obstetric sepsis, hypertensive disorders and complications of unsafe abortion.